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The life sciences in eighteenth-century French thought
Jacques Roger and Keith Rodney Benson
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Frontmatter
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Preface to the 1993 Edition (page xv)
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Preface to the Second Edition (1971) (page xxxix)
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Preface to the Original Edition (1963) (page xli)
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PART I The End of the Renaissance, 1660-1670
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ONE / The Medical and Scientific Spirit of the First Half of the Seventeenth Century (page 3)
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TWO / The Battle with Shadows (page 37)
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THREE / In Search of Clear Ideas (page 74)
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Conclusion to Part I (page 124)
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PART II The Scientists' Philosophy, 1670-1745
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FOUR / The New Scientific Mentality (page 133)
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FIVE / New Discoveries in Animal Reproduction (page 205)
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SIX / The Preexistence of Germs (page 259)
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SEVEN / Problems with Preexistence (page 308)
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Conclusion to Part II (page 354)
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PART III The Philosophers' Science, 1745-1770
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EIGHT / Precursors and Mavericks (page 369)
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NINE / Buffon (page 426)
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TEN / Resistance to the New Science (page 475)
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Conclusion to Part III (page 530)
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Epilogue (page 543)
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Notes (page 561)
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Bibliography (page 691)
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Supplementary Bibliography (page 733)
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Index (page 735)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JIH | 30.3 (Winter, 1999): 506-507 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/206928 |
ISIS | 90.4 (Dec. 1999): 813-814 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/237696 |
AHR | 104.2 (APR. 1999): 655-657 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2650520 |
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Published: c1997
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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